Originally posted by tuco Until I see you post a 645 shot of yours, I think all you can say is I tried shooting 645...
My sister has a scanner she was supposed to get me. The plan was I get the scanner, I don't have one anymore, and I buy a film tank and chemistry over x-mas, and started using my film 645 and scanning negative black and whites. She forgot the scanner, a snow storm was coming and I had to get back north before it hit. Maybe this summer. I ws that close. One of the joys of retirement is, everything you buy goes on the credit card, buying a scanner right now would come out of my 150-450/ FF fund. Not going to happen.
But I do have several albums of 645 images from when I used it. Some of my favourite photos....
I've upgraded Mac OS once to often and neither of my old scanners have relevant drivers.
The one thing I don't have is any of are my old 8x10 and 4x5 images. I don't know what happened to them, but somewhere in one of my gazillion moves, they got lost. A few of them are still locked in my memory, but, I can't get them out to show anyone.
I simply will never forget that tilt shift 8x10 I took of one of the spires at St. James cathedral in Toronto. I lugged a 70 pound kit in an awkward suitcase style box, on the subway and then walked a quarter mile with it to get there.
What I learned in that exercise is, there must have been an easier way to get that assignment done, that didn't involve subways and walking. Ryerson Politech had lots of nice buildings I could have photographed, and used tilt sfit to keep the lines parallel. The lines to the spire weren't parallel to start with. You wouldn't have known if I'd succeeded in correcting the parallels without having an un-corrected image to compare with. Life is full if little disasters.